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Feb 25, 2005

Feature Creep

“Shipping is a feature.” – Attributed to Software Developers Everywhere

Feb 21, 2005

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. – Hunter S. Thompson 1937-2005 The odd thing is that I was just thinking about this phrase yesterday, I never knew who coined it. Little did I know I’d see it splashed over a thousand weblogs 24 hou...

Feb 16, 2005

Politics

Hillary Clinton and Pragmatism

From NewDonkey today: Hillary Clinton has just given us all a textbook case of what it really means to “seize the center”: it does not mean “moving to the right,” it means moving to higher and stronger ground.

Feb 12, 2005

Video Games

Final Fantasy Games - How to Find/Buy

I’ve been thinking about buying a Super Nintendo for a while, just so I could play Final Fantasy 3/VI. Yesterday, though, I was at a Best Buy in Bellevue where I ran into a copy of Final Fantasy Anthology for Playstation that contains FF5 and FF6....

Feb 09, 2005

Technology

Interview with Neal Stephenson in Reason

Mike Godwin (best known from the EFF) with Neal Stephenson: It has been the case for quite a while that the cultural left distrusted geeks and their works; the depiction of technical sorts in popular culture has been overwhelmingly negative for at...

Feb 06, 2005

iRooster

Release Candidate

I fixed one more little bug in Lullabye earlier today. It would prevent alarms from working after Lullabye had been used. The problem that caused it was that iTunes would not quit before the computer went to sleep, which would cause some issues wi...

Feb 06, 2005

iRooster

Chimp Tunes and Musical Taste

One thing that Chimp Tunes has taught me is that not everyone listens to Top 40 drivel. Say, for example, like the person who listened to Make it Big by Wham! </a> Let me be the first to say that I have no clue whatsoever about who these guys ar...

Feb 04, 2005

Random Funniness

What Would Evil Spock Do?

Forget the Son of God… What Would Evil Spock Do? (WWESD)

Feb 01, 2005

iRooster

iRooster Rocks!

Couple simple things: I’m getting set to release iRooster 2.1 Beta 3 or RC 1. I need to try and repro a couple bugs that have been posted on the forum, and then I’ll evaluate it from there. I had my best month ever for sales with iRooster; I’...

Jan 29, 2005

Miscellaneous

Testing testing

I just upgraded to Movable Type 3.15, and I’m trying to figure out if it was successful. In other news, I received an Eric Rudder Bobblehead doll yesterday. It’s watching over me when I’m at work now, which is sort of weird…